Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-20
PUBLISHED BkMI-wEEKLY BY
The Miner Publishing Company.
MATT. W. ANDERSON Manager.
j. y. DICKERSON. Editor
ADVERTISING OUR RESOURCES
ABROAD.


We are sorry to see our esteemed evening
contemporary misdirecting it's genius fol
satire against the Northwest magazine, be.
cause we believe the publication in that pa.
per OF the u and the development
OF the city Of Butte will prove to be a good
investment. The paper is circulated in all
lands, whence we crave population and
capital, by the Northern Pacific Railway
company; and what Butte needs to-day is
more people and more capital. But a
small part of the great u of the city
and Of the tributary camps are yet devel.
oped. With capital, from the financial
centers of the world, which may be at.
tracted here by advertising abroad. we may
greatly increase all OF our sources of ma
terial wealth. and build up a center OF popu-
lation here superior to any other inter-
mountain city. 1t il from these
considerations that we would have
papers with the superior circula-
tory facilities of the Northwest ad-
uertize abroad the splendid resources and
the extraordinary development of one of
the newest but the greatest mining centers
in any country. The world has hardly
realized the greatness of Butte. 1t is indeed
a marvellous city and it ought to be adver-
tised the world over and we regard the
Northwest as a good medium because # is
systematically circulated by a great COM
pany which has facilities that an ordinary
newspaper could hardly be expected to en-
ioy. The Inter Mountains holiday edition
was a good card for the city but was not
as widely circulated as it should have been
simply because the management did not
have the facilities. The Northern Pacific
has a record of thousands of names on
their books, in all lands and languages to
which their publications are sent. 1t has
required years to accomplish this. No
in Montana could have access
to such q constituency as this.
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Having said this much in favor of this
sort of advertising, we can but admit that
the particular number of the Northwestern
voted to the City OF Butte is a great disap.
pointment. It is far below the standard of
excellence established by MI. Smalley.
What Mr.. Smalley has written himself is
very smoothe, as he always writes grace
fully and forcibly. The trouble with this
number of the Northwest is the mining ar
ticle and other matter which was prepared
did not reach st. Paulin time to be utilized,
the writer laboring under the misapprehen-
sion that it was not wanted until August.
Some OF the e%ngravings are also faulty.
We would suggest that under the circnm-
stances the Northwest try it over again.
We would like to see Butte and it's great
industries satisfactorily represented in the
paper because OF it's wide range Of circu-
lation. The work to be ACCOMPLISHED is a
big one for an outsider to undertake on
account OF the magnitude OF the industries
which rave been built up here. Perhaps
the Northwest will cay that it did not get
enough for the work it undertook. Well,
we don't believe it did but it certainly got
enough for the service it has performed. If
it thought it wasn't guaranteed enough to
make the undertaking profitable, it should
not have undertaken it.